Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, All, I have redone/modified the Mac Installation page for Installing MacTeX, ConTeXt Standalone and TeXShop. Not quite finished, yet and needs polishing. Critic invited. regards Keth Am 01.10.2013 um 08:30 schrieb Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Mari, All, I have redone/modified the Mac Installation page for Installing MacTeX, ConTeXt Standalone and TeXShop. Not quite finished, yet and needs polishing. Critic invited. Minor correction. If you running the setup file using sh

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Thanx for the pointer. Am 02.10.2013 um 13:28 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Mari, All, I have redone/modified the Mac Installation page for Installing MacTeX, ConTeXt Standalone and TeXShop. Not quite finished, yet and

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-02 Thread john Culleton
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:22:02 +0300 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: Hello! Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. However, before I get further than the first six chapters, I'd like to get feedback on

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-01 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote: 3) I could write up a tutorial for installing and TeXlive and Standalone if you care for one. Maybe that should go on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mac_Installation . While I'm used to the command

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-10-01 Thread Mari Voipio
Hi, I've now updated the file, trying to take all comments into account. The new file is in the old place, http://www.lucet.fi/pdfs/ctxbasics.pdf. Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, As some already mentioned In OS is not correct either use OS or On! In section 1.1.1 the last sentence is: TeXLive comes with a quite nice editor, TeXShop, that works well with ConTEXt 1) Missing period 2) TeXShop is Mac only. You probably meant to to say TeXWorks!

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar
On 9/29/2013 1:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: Some thoughts: 1.1.1 Unfortunately there’s no really easy way to install ConTEXt on Windows. I never installed ConTeXt on Windows, but if this is true this should definitely be fixed. According to

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-30 Thread Mica Semrick
Any chance of getting that tutorial in some sort of version control? Github/SVN/bitbucket or whatever?! On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org wrote: On 9/29/2013 1:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: Some thoughts: 1.1.1 Unfortunately there’s no really easy way to

[NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello! Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. However, before I get further than the first six chapters, I'd like to get feedback on it, especially on the content, but also on the layout. The file is (at least

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–09–29 Mari Voipio wrote: Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. I'm happy to see someone willing to invest time and effort to improve the documentation! I did neither attend the meeting, nor take part in

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Thangalin
Hi, Some feedback: - The introduction paragraph can be shortened. For example, tell the reader to try the subsequent examples using ConTeXt Live web page (as opposed to 'almost all of the examples in the series can be run online'). On any example that does not work, indicate such at the time. -

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Marco Patzer li...@homerow.info wrote: Then there is a medium sized manual aimed at beginners, “ConTeXt, an excursion” (which is rather outdated, I agree) I was actually aiming at one step lower and in doing things in the order a word processor user would

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
Hi! On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: - The introduction paragraph can be shortened. For example, tell the reader to try the subsequent examples using ConTeXt Live web page (as opposed to 'almost all of the examples in the series can be run online'). On any